Saturday, April 08, 2023

What does China think about Force Design 2030.

via Proceedings. 
According to Tianying, the reconnaissance fight requires the integrated use of space, air, and sea assets to continuously conduct focused and close surveillance of the waters and airspace around Taiwan, especially nearby islands. Despite potential difficulties in detecting distributed, low-signature forces, the range of their deployments will be dictated largely by the maximum range of HIMARS and antiship missiles. These must be deployed within several hundred kilometers of the island of Taiwan or the mainland if they are to interfere with a Chinese attempt at armed unification. Potential deployment areas include Japan’s Sakishima Islands (the southernmost end of the Ryukyu island chain, including the islands of Miyako and Yaeyama), the Babuyan Islands (a Philippine archipelago located in the Luzon Strait), other strait-adjacent islands in the first island chain, and potentially even Pratas Atoll (controlled by Taiwan). The author argues that areas farther from this region are not significant for PLA operations focused on Taiwan.

Furthermore, Tianying claims it will be difficult for EABs to stay hidden in the first island chain. Islands are fixed positions, and China’s growing constellation of high-resolution observation satellites, with resolutions of 0.5 meters or less, should be capable of identifying maritime surface and ground targets.14 Even if Marines can avoid satellite detection, useful locations are within range of the PLA’s aerial reconnaissance and surveillance capabilities. The PLA’s growing unmanned aerial vehicle inventory provides long-endurance observation, monitoring, tracking, and strike capabilities from hundreds of kilometers away. These can be used to monitor likely EAB sites adjacent to the near seas, fill in gaps of satellite coverage, and guide PLA long-range precision-guided weapons. Equipped with only light air defenses, he argues, EAB forces that are found can be targeted quickly by numerous land, sea, or air-based fires.15

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Open Comment Post. 8 Apr 23

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China turns up the pressure on Taiwan...

I'm not a law of the sea guy but China says that it will inspect ships going to Taiwan. I know that we regularly inspect ships in the Persian Gulf and off the coast of Africa looking for weapon shipments. What are we doing? Intercepting weapons from Iran to some group we don't like. We seize those weapons too. With that being said could China seize our shipments to Taiwan, hold them for a few months to rip them apart and put back together and then let them through and declare it a health and safety issue to protect their environment from pests? Just spitballing here and running thru a couple of scenarios out loud.
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Friday, April 07, 2023

N. Korea's nuclear underwater unmanned assault vessel..

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They were hardcore back in the day

Add this the list of ugly ways to die. I can't even imagine the pain.
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Ever seen an Airborne Armor tab? It's coming soon...

Weird. I saw the Airborne Armor Tab but I didn't see jump wings. Curious.
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That did not go as planned. Armed citizen wins...

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Australian Army's 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment @ Exercise Damascus

An almost 40 ton vehicle doing recon? Well over 7 feet tall? Doesn't swim? Yeah, this will work out beautifully.
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Mountain Leaders Course trains Marines to survive in austere mountainous environments

 

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Open Comment Post. 7 Apr 23

 


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They're setting up Phase 2 of Force Design 2030...Expect the loss of even more combat power!

 Thanks to CoffeeJoeJava for the link!

*If you have been watching the Marine Corps for the past few years then you know the play book.  Remember the article "Who Are We Sir?"  That was the opening shot of Berger's radical reform. Now we have this article.  Read it and weep.  Instead of taking a pause and assessing what has been lost they're going full speed ahead...or at least hoping to.


via WarOnTheRocks

But the work is far from complete. We believe the Marine Corps can do a better job of articulating how its contributions to the joint force are more significant than its dependencies. Your predecessor shared in his 2022 Force Design 2030 annual update that he, too, believed it is essential to communicate the details of his vision more effectively. 

As the next commandant, you will have the opportunity to improve the narrative by clearly identifying and communicating how the service’s current and future operational objectives contribute to the challenges of today’s ever-changing national security environment. We believe that the process ought to start with identifying areas where the Marine Corps adds unique capabilities and expanded capacity to the joint force while interrogating some of the favorable assumptions underlying these capabilities. By embracing this effort, you can bolster the Marine Corps’ narrative and build understanding with decision-makers in the Pentagon, at the White House, and on Capitol Hill.

This is new for the Marine Corps.  The authors talk about gaining support from policy makers but leaves out the public.  Historically the Marine Corps has survived because it has the support of the American people and perhaps as important, the millions of Marines that are no longer on active duty.  They've pissed that away while charging toward an uncertain force design that is half done and has diminished combat power TODAY. 

To garner the support required to meet these dependencies and shortfalls, the service needs to do a better job of convincing Congress and the other armed services that the capabilities that the Marine Corps plans to bring to the fight are worth their investment, now and in the future.

This is strange to me.  We've heard over and over that FD2030 has been run up the flag pole and has the full support of the SecDef, SecNav and the JCS.  So why the need to garner more support now?  This is basic change agent 101 shit.  You get buy in before you begin the change! 

However, as the Marine Corps continues to emphasize how the capabilities that it has chosen to pursue are a force multiplier in competition, the service could also explicitly state what missions it will no longer train for. 

This is ominous!  What mission set is the Marine Corps about to abandon? 

Giving investment in the Future Vertical Lift initiative and ship-to-shore connectors higher priority — perhaps at the expense of other warfighting capabilities — would help to reconcile intra-theater lift and protection concerns. With the divestment of certain capabilities, ground mobility and counter-mobility should be tested to ensure that the future force can get into and out of the fight.

Once again they're talking about giving up warfighting capabilities.

Sorry folks.

Can't take this anymore. 

Read the plan for the end of the Marine Corps here. 

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Potential oil crisis is bad enough. How about a looming food crisis in the 3rd world?

 

This is interesting.

This flex is one that I expected much sooner.  Think about it.  What would you do if the entire world (Western) was aligned against you, shut you out of all economic markets, put an almost blanket ban on your exports and imports?

You would strike back in anyway possible.

The new world order that China & Russia are talking about is coming and its gonna bite, its gonna truly change the world as we know it.
The Russians & Chinese are flexing hard and they're doing it smart and we need to get ahead of this QUICK!

The oil cut is gonna hit hard and a once compliant Saudi Arabia is gonna participate in putting a serious hurt on Western economies (I read a report that indicated that several countries to include Japan, several African nations and several S. American countries are gonna be in a serious hurt locker).

Now you add grain exports to the list and you have pain in a handbasket.

The only good part in all of this is that globalization is gonna die. It can't survive in this type of environment.

Is there a way to minimize what we're seeing on the economic front?

Yeah but its gonna hurt, its gonna crush the current administration's agenda and its gonna put certain allies in a hurtlocker but it can be done.

So yeah.

The new world order is here.  The West is gonna share the stage with China, Russia and the rest of BRIC nations.

NATO should have died when the WARSAW Pact died.

Now we need NATO because it appears that we're going to be staring in the face a new global financial and military alliance.
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Thursday, April 06, 2023

About Assange & Snowden...

 Someone in the open comment posts I do here commented and stated that Assange was just another common criminal.

I take issue with that.

Don't get me wrong.  They did reveal state secrets.  

But the US Govt has a habit of over classifying everything and what they revealed weren't exactly secrets in the military sense of the word but more like embarrassing incidents that would have the average citizen questioning what the govt was doing.

Another thing.

Not once did the US Govt deny any of the allegations made.  Not once.

They did run with the revealing state secrets charge HARD though and the MSM did their part and focused a fickle public on that ONE issue and not what was revealed.

To paraphrase Malcolm X.  If you're not careful they'll have you loving people you should hate and hating people you should love.

I don't know if Assange & Snowden rise to the level of being loved but persecuted the way they have been?

I just don't know about that.

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Latvian Army @ Exercise Crystal Arrow 23

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Armour infantry of the Singapore Army debussing from a Hunter AFV

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Blast from the past. USMC T-pattern BDU

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American Stryker Vehicles are in the hands of the Ukrainians...

 

I don't know if I recall correctly but I believe the Stryker was never intended for high intensity combat (weird how they designate stuff...any combat is high intensity if you're on the ground). The Bradley and the Abrams were meant for the big fights. Will be interesting to see how they perform in the mud and guck and other stuff over there.
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"He had a chance." Zelensky said he would no longer take a call from Xi Jinping.

 

The arrogance is breathtaking!

Whoever his handlers are need to take away the press clippings and show him economic reports and estimates of repairing his crippled infrastructure.

If he actually believe the free ride he's been getting from the US will continue forever then he's smoking crack.
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Russia: New Cold War is Over, We Are Now in ‘Hot Conflict With the United States’

 via Breitbart

The new Cold War is already over, a Kremlin spokesman has said, apparently looking past Russia’s own role in invading Ukraine and accusing the United States of “playing with fire” by pushing the world towards nuclear war that he insists Russians wish to avoid.

The comments come just hours after Russia announced it had deployed nuclear-capable missiles to the borders of NATO in Belarus, and refitted Belarussian jets with the equipment to carry and drop nuclear bombs. Moscow made a tacit accusation that the United States was to blame for this, saying Russia was doing no more than America already did, in stationing nuclear weapons in the territory of European allies.

Here

Wow.

Looks like our "competitors" have picked up the torch of imminent warfare.

To be expected especially considering all the actions taken to thrill the mob and NOT THINK!

Regardless we're here now.

Question.

Can the US handle a major regional war with China, the continuing proxy war in Ukraine and a major regional war between Israel and Iran at the same time?


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Watch what's happening in TN. Public Unrest as a political tool has to be stopped.

 Are you watching the shit show in TN right now?  I find it distasteful, but at the sametime necessary.

The left has fallen in love with public unrest to push their agenda and it needs to be stopped.

Many try and link peaceful civil rights protests of the past to the madness that is happening now but it couldn't be further from the truth.

During the civil rights movement the STATE acted in a hostile and violent manner.  That is wrong.  Not the protesters but the state.

That doesn't need to be relitigated because its widely accepted and isn't up for debate (except among the racists on this blog but fuck you).

What's different is that you have public unrest that isn't being checked today and is being encouraged by a political party.

That is a totally different kettle of fish.

So why have so many been so slow to act?

It easy.

Words.  Former civil rights leaders have blessed this activity and called it equal to what happened in the past.  If you note the wording of the disruptive protesters you'll always here "this is good trouble".

That's false and its wrong.

The TN action IS distasteful.

But it IS necessary.

The brakes need to be put on the madness that is sweeping the country.

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